Re: debian support and laptops
Hi,
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:33:07PM +0100, Klistvud wrote:
> Dne, 10. 12. 2009 04:53:45 je Celejar napisal(a):
> >
> > kvm requires CPU support. My understanding is that the performance of
> > qemu is much better when enhanced with kvm.
>
> Can confirm that. On a sidenote: the HP Compaq 6715b with the 2 GHZ
> dual-core Turion *does* have the CPU extensions required to run kvm.
> Without kvm support, qemu is *quite a bit* slower. Now, exactly *why*
> somebody, in this day and age, would still go on manufacturing
> processors without hardware virtualization support built in, is beyond
> me. The production costs are in all probability virtually identical ...
For qemu-type environments:
qemu: user-space only virtualization
kqemu: kernel module assisted virtualization
kvm: hardware assisted virtualization
On HW w/o hardware virtualization support, use kqemu.
Osamu
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